Droit et théologie au XIIIe siècle

Law and Theology in the Thirteenth Century. In the High Middle Ages, Law and Theology were perceived as novel twin disciplines based on same principle contradictory enquiry. From the mid-twelfth to the beginning of the fourteenth century they constituted the axis of scholastic epistémè. This New Regime of Truth was presented as construction or reconstruction; the heuristic fiction (that is, replacing reality by an efficient elaboration) was one of its fundamental constitutive traits. At the intersection of Law and Theology the concept of person once examined illustrates this analysis. In both fields (but starting from different reference-points, the ficticious person adopted from Roman Law and the distinction individual-person generated by the Trinitarian Dogma) the concept allowed to designate the zone within which the subject of this Truth was relevant, that is to iden tify the hub of this epistémè.
Boureau Alain. Droit et théologie au XIIIe siècle. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 47ᵉ année, N. 6, 1992. pp. 1113-1125.